Congratulations!

You reduced the debt to below 60% of GDP in 2024, and kept it at a sustainable level
through 2030.

Savings Relative to Current Law in Billions $8320

Dollars in billions that you need to cut to

get under 60% of the GDP by 2024.

$0
See your list of choices on page 2.
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Choose Your Path Defense, Diplomacy & Security

Afghanistan Replace the Joint Strike Fighter Program -$50B
Reduce Troop Levels to 30,000 by 2017 -$680B with F-16s and F/A-18s

Eliminate War Funding After 2021 -$820B Foreign Aid

Maintain Current Funding Levels $0 Cut International Assistance Programs -$150B

by 25%
Increase International Assistance $150B
Alter the Sequester
Programs by 25%
Fully Repeal the Sequester $1,040B
Repeal About Half of the Sequester $540B
Veteran Benefits
Further Reduce Discretionary Spending -$320B
Reduce Veteran Income Security Benefits -$50B
Maintain the Sequester $0B
Expand Veteran Income Security Benefits $50B

Cancel the Ground Combat Vehicle and -$50B

Defer Development of the Long-Range
Bomber
Reduce US Navy Fleet to 230 Ships -$110B
Increase Homeland Security Spending $70B
Troop Levels
Maintain Current Army Levels $130B
Replace Military Personnel with Civilians -$30B
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Domestic Social & Economic Social Security

Spending Raise the Normal Retirement Age to 70 -$80B
Restart the NASA Moon Mission and Create a $250B Slow Initial Benefit Growth
Moon Colony Gradually Reduce Scheduled Benefits -$150B
Enact New Jobs Bill $340B Progressively Reduce Benefits, Protecting Low -$30B
Highway Funding and Middle Income Earners
Limit Highway Funding to Dedicated Revenue -$190B Progressively Reduce Benefits, Protecting Low -$90B
Enact Increased Transportation Funding $100B Income Earners
Block Grant Food Stamps and Reduce to 2008 -$140B Use a More Accurate Measure of Inflation for -$150B
Levels COLAs
Cut Temporary Assistance to Needy Families -$80B Reduce Spousal Benefits from 50% to 33% -$10B
(TANF) Program Increase Years Used to Calculate Benefits -$70B
Cut Federal Funding of K-12 Education by -$80B Include All New State and Local Workers -$90B
25% Institute a Minimum Benefit $70B
Restrict Eligibility for Pell Grants -$120B
Cut School Breakfast Programs -$30B
Double Funding on Adoption and Foster Care $80B
Increase Education Funding by $10 Billion $110B
Each Year
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Healthcare Other Spending

Modify Health Care Reform Law Use the Chained CPI for Mandatory Programs -$190B
Establish a Public Option in the Health -$220B and the Tax Code
Exchanges Reduce Federal Civilian Employee Pay -$110B
Repeal Insurance Mandate -$550B Increases and Cap Increases in Military Pay

Repeal Entire Legislation $170B Introduce Minimum Out-of-Pocket -$40B

Requirements Under TRICARE for Life
Repeal Legislation, but Keep -$1,010B
Medicare/Medicaid Cuts Reform Federal Retiree Benefits -$110B

Modernize Cost Sharing for Medicare -$160B Reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -$30B

Increase Medicare Premiums for High-Income -$90B Reduce Crop Insurance Subsidies -$30B
Beneficiaries Expand Spending on Federal Research & $110B
Require Manufacturers to Pay a Minimum -$170B Development
Drug Rebate for Medicare Low-Income Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act -$20B
Beneficiaries Provide Funding to States to Fill Budget Gaps $130B
Enact Medical Malpractice Reform -$70B
Bundle Payments for Inpatient and Post-Acute -$70B
Care
Replace Traditional Medicare with Premium -$380B
Support
Modify Federal Medicaid Funding to States
Reduce the Floor on Federal Matching Rates -$230B
for Medicaid
Block Grant Medicaid and Grow With -$860B
Inflation Plus Population Growth
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Revenue Tax Expenditures

Raise Tax Rates on Capital Gains and -$60B Eliminate Domestic Production Activities -$230B
Dividends Deduction
Increase Excise Taxes on Alcohol -$80B Gradually Phase Out Mortgage Interest -$510B
Impose a Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee -$70B Deduction

Restore 2009 Estate Tax Parameters -$150B Eliminate the State and Local Tax Deduction -$970B

Enact Carbon Tax or Cap-and-Trade -$450B Eliminate LIFO Accounting and Oil and Gas -$170B
Preferences
Increase Gas Tax by 10 Cents per Gallon -$160B
Curtail the Deduction for Charitable Giving -$250B
Enact Five Percent VAT with Partial Rebate -$640B
Make Research & Experimentation Tax Credit $90B
Increase the Standard Deduction $300B
Permanent
Impose a 5.4% Surtax on Income Above $1 -$550B
Increase EITC for Childless Workers $70B
Million
Reduce and Reform the EITC -$300B
Enact the Buffett Rule -$90B
Expand the EITC and Child Tax Credit $110B
Raise Social Security Payroll Tax Cap
Extend American Opportunity Tax Credit $80B
Raise Cap to Cover 90% of Earnings -$550B
Tax Treatment of Employer Sponsored Health Insurance
Institute Two Percent Surtax on Earnings -$380B
Above Cap Accelerate and Modify Excise Tax on High- -$280B
Cost Health Plans in 2016
Reduce Corporate Tax Rate to 30% $680B
Repeal Excise Tax on High-Cost Plans $120B
Increase HI Tax by 0.1% -$100B
Cap Employer Health Care Exclusion at Median -$500B
Improve Tax Collection (Reduce Tax Gap) -$70B
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